{"id":19764,"date":"2010-05-06T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=19764"},"modified":"2013-06-25T14:46:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T21:46:30","slug":"flagstaff-choirs-to-sing-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/flagstaff-choirs-to-sing-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Flagstaff choirs to sing to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_19765\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19765\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19765\" alt=\"Choir\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Shrine-of-the-Ages-09-10-e1372196734183.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shrine of the Ages choir<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Northern Arizona University Shrine of the Ages Choir and members of Flagstaff\u2019s Master Chorale, under the direction of\u00a0<strong>Edith Copley<\/strong>, director of Choral Studies, will embark upon a concert tour to South Africa on May 10.<\/p>\n<p>The 74 participants will visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apartheidmuseum.org\/\">Apartheid Museum<\/a>\u00a0and Soweto in Johannesburg, the site of the June 1976 uprising by students who took to the streets to protest against apartheid, as well as enjoy two game drives to observe wildlife. A flight to Cape Town will offer a ride on a cable car to the top of Table Mountain and visits to the Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Seal Island, the Cape Point Nature Reserve and a penguin colony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational touring is an important part of the NAU choral program, giving our students the opportunity to learn about other cultures\u2014their history, people and music,\u201d Copley said.<\/p>\n<p>The choirs will participate in an African drumming circle and a Sunday Service in a rural black church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the main reasons I wanted to tour in South Africa,\u201d Copley said, \u201cis that everyone in the country sings\u2014it is a very important part of their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hear a preview performance of the South Africa Tour at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 9, at the Church of the Red Rocks in Sedona. Admission is free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/flagstaff-choirs-to-sing-to-south-africa\/\">The Northern Arizona University Shrine of the Ages Choir and members of Flagstaff\u2019s Master Chorale, under the direction of\u00a0Edith Copley, director of Choral Studies, will embark upon a concert tour to South Africa on May 10. The 74 participants will visit the\u00a0Apartheid Museum\u00a0and Soweto in Johannesburg, the site of the June 1976 uprising by students&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":19765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}